[Dovecot] Dovecot sieve redirect: failed to redirect message to user at domain.com

[Duane Hill]

Thursday, June 9, 2011, 3:20:34 PM, Thiago wrote:

> Hello,

> I'm running Dovecot 2.0.13 on my Ubuntu10.04. It's working very well but
> I faced a problem with Redirect and Vacation using Sieve. :-(
> In fact, after well configuring the system I dont't receive the redirect
> message, and in the log I found:

> ########################################################################################
> Jun  9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user at server.com): Fatal:
> execv(/usr/sbin/sendmail) failed: Permission denied
> Jun  9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user at server.com): Error:
> Sendmail process terminated abnormally, exit status 84
> Jun  9 18:49:37 box7 dovecot: lmtp(10734, user at server.com): Error:
> At35JIgC8U3uKQAAndgVeA: sieve:
> msgid=<20110609184850.0FAB8200A41C at domain.com>: failed to redirect
> message to <user-destination at server.com> (refer to server log for more
> information)
> ########################################################################################

> In sieve.log I see:

> ########################################################################################
> error: msgid=<2011060919.0200A375 at domain.com>: failed to redirect
> message to <user at domain.com> (refer to server log for more information).
> ########################################################################################

> Manually sendmail command works normally. Cron sends email normally.
> Any idea about the reason this happen and how to solve?

> Thanks in advance,
> Thiago Henrique

Can't tell for sure why. Please post the results of the 'dovecot -n'
command. Your logs appear to state there is some kind of permission
issue.

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Best regards,
 Duane                            mailto:duane at duanemail.org